13. 14
Can everyone source their force?
Can we contribute to everyoneâs self-actualization?
14. Is this library ready to support a
world of unlimited content, multiple
formats, massive access, and
consumer expectations of MORE?
Yes?
No?
With
Effort, Vision, Leadership?
Never?
15. Every Day in every way libraries are
throwing pebbles
16.
17.
18.
19.
20. Itâs simple really, shift happens, gedoverit
⢠Users & Communities will continue to be diverse in the extreme
⢠Expectations around timeliness will increase
⢠We will have a foot in both camps for many, many years to come:
digital and physical
⢠Content will (is already) be dominated by non-text
(gamification, 3D, visual, music, video, audio, etc.)
⢠Search will explode with options and one-step, one box search is
for dummies
⢠The single purpose anchored device is already dead as a target
⢠Devices will focus on
social, collaboration, sharing, learning, multimedia, creation and
successful library strategies will align with that
⢠E-Learning, collections and metadata will go to the cloud
massively
21. Library Megatrends
It doesnât take a genius to see librarian
skills and competencies applied to the
trends and issues in our communities in
very strategic ways â
social, economic, learning, and
discovery impacts.
27. Libraries core skill is not
delivering information
Libraries improve the
quality of the question
and the user experience
Libraries are about learning
and building communities
35. Focus on the REAL Issues
Not BOOKS! The experience
Retail Sales Down?
NO
Titles Down?
NO
Circulation Down?
NO
Reading Down?
NO
Teen Reading Down?
NO
44. What if all music, audiobooks, and video moved to
streaming formats by 2018?
What if the DVD and CD go the way of vinyl, VHS, and
cassettes?
45. What if all books are digital?
What if book services move to a subscription
model of unlimited use for $7/month?
What about next generation e-books?
What if all books are âbeyond textâ?
Can we support books with embedded
video, adaptive
technologies, audio, updating, software
tools, assessments, web-links, etc.
46. Could your library support advanced higher
education and offer accredited courses or
support universities and colleges for distance
education?
Have you catalogued them?
Can you see yourself offering diplomas?
47. Could your library support distance education,
high school credits, and home schooling on a
much higher level?
48. Could your library support any kind of mobile
device seamlessly?
Are you fully ready to deliver, agnostically to
desktops, laptops, tablets, phablets, smartphones,
televisions, appliances, at a much higher level?
49. Are you prepared for new forms of content?
Real multimedia? 3D objects and databases?
Holographics? Enhanced media?
Can you be ready for makerspaces, creative
spaces, writing labs, business and start-up
incubators, etc.
Can you publish for your community?
50. What kinds of community spaces are needed in
the future?
Can you support learning spaces, community
meeting spaces, performance spaces, maker
spaces, real advisory spaces, true relationship
and consultation management . . .?
51. What if everything was in the cloud?
(software, databases, metadata, content . . .)
What would you do with those system skills on staff?
52. Semantic, Sentiment, Bias, Visual, Ontological
What if search immersive resource discovery becomes as
ubiquitous as search engines?
What if schools and public libraries partner on discovery
services (a la NYPL, BPL, QBPL, and NYED with their
BiblioCommons initiative)
53. What if all metadata and content discovery is
freely available using open APIs through the
OCLC WorldShare vault and the Digital Public
Library of America / Europeana vault of open and
free metadata?
What does your experience portal look like? Top
questions?
55. Up Your Game
⢠Know your local community demographics
⢠Focus on needs assessment and social assessments
⢠Prioritize: Love all, Serve all, Save the World means nothing
gets done
⢠Priorities are SMART:
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, & Time bound
⢠Look for partnerships that add value
57. Up Your Game
⢠Align with Collections â every collection must be justified by
programs
⢠Force strategic investment budgeting
⢠Look for partnerships that add value
⢠Donât go it alone. Focus on large scale sustainable programs
⢠Connect to the longer process not just events
⢠Virtual and in-person - in the Library and reaching out with partners
⢠SCALE: eLearning and Surveys â e.g. citation methods
58. Up Your Game
⢠Align with Collections â But add virtual experiences
⢠Look for partnerships that add value
⢠Ensure the program delivery person is embedded including
librarians
⢠What are your top 20 question domains? Start there.
⢠Donât go it alone. Build scalability and sustainability.
⢠Look for replicability â every neighbourhood
59.
60. Up Your Game
⢠Start offering diplomas and certificates
⢠Look for partnerships that add value
⢠Offer real educational opportunities not just adjacencies
⢠What does your community need for economic advantage?
⢠What courses to you offer or recommend? (TED, Khan
Academy, MOOCs, Coursera, Udacity, edX, Learn4Life
(ed2go), etc.)
61. Up Your Game
⢠Understand the Communities and have deep partnerships
⢠Understand Pedagogy in the context of student experiences
and educational goals
⢠Know where your programs are heading
⢠Consider deep partnerships
⢠Consider coaches, peer, and tutoring partnerships
62. Up Your Game
⢠The strong âlibraryâ brand â adding dimension
⢠Personal branding â Who are your stars? Promote them.
⢠Program branding
⢠Take risks for attention (AIDA)
⢠Embed your brand beyond the library walls and virtually
63. Up Your Game
⢠Grow collections investments in strategic areas (for example
economic impact, jobs, early years, hobbies, political
alignment, homework, research agenda âŚ)
⢠Develop hybrid strategies that are consistent for digital and print
and programs
⢠Be obsessive about recommendations and advice and added value
⢠Integrate virtual and physical â hybridize
⢠Donât fear off-site cooperation
64. Up Your Game
⢠Move the ILS to the Cloud
⢠Linked Data models â OCLC WorldShare, Europeana, DPLA, etc.
⢠Look at TCO and look at all costs incurred and not just hard
costs
⢠Review opportunity costs in soft costs
65. Up Your Game
⢠Dog, Star, Cow, Problem Child/?
⢠Reduce investment in successes
⢠Increase investment
⢠Look at TCO
⢠Look at all costs incurred and not just hard costs
⢠Review opportunity costs in soft costs